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Pickles, Pumpkins, & Peanuts
Jul. 23, 2009
Little Spendthrifts
You may have noticed that I've been quite silent on the blog this summer. I had grandiose plans of posting at least once a week and sharing the insights God was laying on my heart through a study of Colossians, but, alas, my body and mind have been hard-pressed to keep-up with the little ones. It seems that taking a summer break (even if only 6-8 weeks, as in our case) is not as relaxing when you are the mommy of the ones doing the "summer break"ing. I think I was more relaxed and organized when we were doing school. *sigh*
So, I apologize for the silence and the lack of photos about our summer adventures. We have been enjoying summer fun and I have lots of photos to choose from but the thought of trying to upload them and such makes me want to take a nap.
BUT....
I have been reading (painfully slowly) through the Charlotte Mason Homeschool Series and it has been rich. I stumbled on a quote the other night that reminded me why my brain is so weary these last few weeks. My children are spendthrifts with their thoughts and emotions. They are constantly gibber-gabbering, and twittle-patting on about this or that and I'm trying to live in two realms at once. I'm trying to grocery shop and listen to the lastest design Pickles has for a Lego space vehicle. Or I'm trying to cook dinner and decipher what Pumpkin means as she tries to use big words with preschool speak (meaning she can't say the words she is trying to use). I only have one, tired and old, brain and by the end of the day it is exhausted!
BUT....
These are days of joy and discovery too! I will have lots of time to myself to think someday. For now I will remember to "bear with love" as I live in a home with little spendthrifts.
"The children are shocking spendthrifts; their endless goings and comings, their restlessness, their energy, the very wagging of their tongues, all mean expenditure of substance: the loss is not appreciable, but they lose something by every sudden sally, out of doors or within. ...And not only is the body of the child more active, proportionably, than that of the man: the child's brain as compared with the man's is in a perpetual flutter of endeavour." Charlotte Mason, Vol. 1, pg. 25
Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. Colossians 3:12-13
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